Chris Coleman

Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

I think, from our point of view, my opinion is that La Liga, the tempo and physicality is completely different to the Premier League. Technically, some of the teams there are absolutely tip top.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

My dad was Dublin born and bred - a Dublin boy - but he always pushed me to play for what was Wales Under-15s in my day.

That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.

I get the Swansea-Cardiff thing: I was a Swansea player; I loved playing against Cardiff. But when I played for Wales and played with Jason Perry or Nathan Blake, I never saw them as blue and white and me as black and white.

I can remember when I was a 17-year-old at Swansea and Terry Yorath and Tommy Hutchison were in charge.

I've had more failures than I've had success, but I'm not afraid to fail.

Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.

I've got a strong relationship with Kit Symons.

My best mates are my mates from school, and we have always stayed close.